2T Reads

A stunning opening that is drenched in sensuality, charged desire, and the unknown which Mootoo keeps building on throughout her story. I...

The very first story hit me with its all too familiar reality- parents sending their child to be educated at a school that teaches in a...

-Let them think of us as dirt, Rin thought. She was dirt. She was dirt. Her army was dirt. But dirt was common, ubiquitous, patient, and...

"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark"- Warsan Shire 📜📜📜📜📜 Listening to the author recite these poems, I felt as...

… But I've seen how power works. It's not about who you are, it's about how they see you. And once you're mud in this country, you're...

..our dead are only weights on our backs when we won't let them walk beside us, when we try to pretend they are not ours or they are not...

Ring Shout completely transports and immerses its reader, much like a fantastic full-length novel. Clark spins a certain tapestry with...

Below, we asked debut and self-published author Jemilla to share her inspiration and process that led to Bastet's legacy. Enjoy! Hi...

Only one of us still gravitates towards Romances and that is not me. So, colour me surprised and delighted to find that this story had a...

"...They say that my body is cold, but my anger is hot."- Serapio. 🌕🌗🌘 #BlackSun is a story that is being steadily and wonderfully...

Stories that are told from multiple personal perspectives and in different voices have always been favourites. They expand the narrative...

Growing up in Jamaica sounds like the ultimate vacation to a lot of outsiders, and on many levels it most certainly is. But my beautiful...

-But the lifeline I grabbed onto, the one that dragged me from the swirling cyclone, was authored by mystics who'd plumbed deeper depths...

"Kinship is a two-sided coin, Nigig. You always gotta ask yourself, who is being excluded here?"- Migizi. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈�...

-We does say it here in Trinidad that 'we is we'-Demas That quote speaks to the held belief that we are all one, that even though we are...

-You don't have to take my voice, I tell my grandmother. Just teach me how to use it.- Tavia 🕵🏿‍♀️ In Morrow's take on mythical women,...

-yes, blood is thick, but water is life- from "Father" 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 When I started reading these poems, I...

Reading these poems make me feel as if I am sitting at the feet of our great storyteller, our griot, who maps our history, our stories,...

-Brace yourself for whirlwinds coiled at my heart- Gastropoda. Reading Olive Senior's poems(or novels), one cannot help but to be in awe...

-Some will say that a river that changes course is a river remembering itself- At its core that is what #thesameearth explores: change....